To: ALL WHO HAVE EARS TO HEAR
From; GOD THE FATHER, THE LORD JESUS CHRIST
HIS SON and Ministered through the HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD, The Helper,
that He may be with you forever. [John 14:16]
Subject: MY WORD
James 2:14–26 (AMP) 14 What is the use (profit), my brethren, for anyone to profess to
have faith if he has no [good] works [to show for it]? Can [such] faith save
[his soul]? 15 If a brother or sister is poorly clad and lacks food
for each day, 16 And one of you says to him, Good-bye! Keep
[yourself] warm and well fed, without giving him the necessities for the body,
what good does that do? 17 So also faith, if it does not have works
(deeds and actions of obedience to back it up), by itself is destitute of power
(inoperative, dead). 18 But someone will say [to you then], You [say you] have faith, and
I have [good] works. Now you show me your [alleged] faith apart from any [good]
works [if you can], and I by [good] works [of obedience] will show you my
faith. 19 You believe that God is one; you do well. So do the demons
believe and shudder [in terror and horror such as make a man’s hair stand on
end and contract the surface of his skin]! 20 Are you willing to be
shown [proof], you foolish (unproductive, spiritually deficient) fellow, that
faith apart from [good] works is inactive and ineffective and
worthless? 21 Was not our forefather Abraham [shown to be] justified
(made acceptable to God) by [his] works when he brought to the altar as an
offering his [own] son Isaac? 22 You see that [his] faith was
cooperating with his works, and [his] faith was completed and reached
its supreme expression [when he implemented it] by [good] works. 23 And
[so] the Scripture was fulfilled that says, Abraham believed in (adhered to,
trusted in, and relied on) God, and this was accounted to him as righteousness
(as conformity to God’s will in thought and deed), and he was called God’s
friend. 24 You see that a man is justified (pronounced righteous
before God) through what he does and not alone through faith [through works of
obedience as well as by what he believes]. 25 So also with Rahab the
harlot—was she not shown to be justified (pronounced righteous before God) by
[good] deeds when she took in the scouts (spies) and sent them away by a
different route? 26 For as
the human body apart from the spirit is lifeless, so faith apart from [its]
works of obedience is also dead.
James 2:14–20 (The Living Bible) 14 Dear brothers, what’s the use of saying
that you have faith and are Christians if you aren’t proving it by helping
others? Will that kind of faith save anyone? 15 If you
have a friend who is in need of food and clothing, 16 and you say to
him, “Well, good-bye and God bless you; stay warm and eat hearty,” and then
don’t give him clothes or food, what good does that do? 17 So you
see, it isn’t enough just to have faith. You must also do good to prove that
you have it. Faith that doesn’t show itself by good works is no faith at all—it
is dead and useless. 18 But someone may well argue, “You say the way to God is by faith alone,
plus nothing; well, I say that good works are important too, for without good
works you can’t prove whether you have faith or not; but anyone can see that I
have faith by the way I act.” 19 Are there still some among you
who hold that “only believing” is enough? Believing in one God? Well, remember
that the demons believe this too—so strongly that they tremble in terror! 20
Fool! When will you ever learn that
“believing” is useless without doing what God wants you to? Faith
that does not result in good deeds is not real faith.
1 Corinthians 3:7–21 (CJB) 7 So neither the planter nor the waterer is anything, only God who
makes things grow—8 planter and waterer are the same. However, each
will be rewarded according to his work. 9 For we are God’s
co-workers; you are God’s field, God’s building. 10 Using the grace
God gave me, I laid a foundation, like a skilled master-builder; and another
man is building on it. But let each one be careful how he builds. 11
For no one can lay any foundation other
than the one already laid, which is Yeshua the Messiah. 12 Some
will use gold, silver or precious stones in building on this foundation; while
others will use wood, grass or straw. 13 But each one’s work will be
shown for what it is; the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by
fire—the fire will test the quality of each one’s work. 14 If the
work someone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward; 15
if it is burned up, he will have to bear the loss: he will still escape with
his life, but it will be like escaping through a fire. 16 Don’t you
know that you people are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you? 17
So if anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is
holy, and you yourselves are that temple. 18 Let no one fool
himself. If someone among you thinks he is wise (by this world’s standards),
let him become “foolish,” so that he may become really wise. 19 For the wisdom of this world is nonsense,
as far as God is concerned; inasmuch as the Tanakh says, “He
traps the wise in their own cleverness,”20 and again, “Adonai knows that the
thoughts of the wise are worthless.”21 So let no one boast about
human beings, for all things are yours—
[Please
Note: Always Read the Word of God in
Context, reading the entire chapter or book, asking the Holy Spirit of the
Living God to give you the interpretation.
2 Peter 1:16–21
(Williams) 16 For it was not mere stories of fancy
that we followed when we told you of the power and coming of our Lord Jesus
Christ, but we had been eyewitnesses of His majesty. 17 For when He
received such honor and glory from God the Father, when from the majestic glory
there was borne to Him a voice like this, “This is my Son, my Beloved, in whom
I take delight.” 18 we heard this voice ourselves borne from heaven
while we were with Him on that sacred mountain. 19 So we have the
message of the prophets more certainly guaranteed. Please pay attention to this message as to a
lamp that is shining in a dismal place, until the day dawns and the morning
star rises in your hearts; 20 because you recognize this truth above
all else, that no prophecy in Scripture
is to be interpreted by one’s own mind, 21 for no prophecy has
ever yet originated in man’s will, but men who were led by the Holy Spirit
spoke from God.]
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